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A resourceful Kansas town adapts to changing demographics.

The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on the need to commemorate the toll of slavery.

This toolkit accompanies the article “Uncommon Ground,” and provides a classroom activity to celebrate diversity and build common ground by making personal story quilts.

n. pl. Children’s dictionaries have the power to shape how kids see the world. Be sure yours promotes tolerance.

This Latina civic empowerment program seeks to “take stories of adversity and flip them into stories of glory.”

One year after Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of thousands of displaced students remain scattered in schools across the nation. In Houston, which has the largest concentration of evacuees, two schools continue helping displaced students adjust to new surroundings -- and honor what was lost or left behind.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has declared April Confederate History Month. His original seven-paragraph proclamation was full of paeans to grey-clad heroes but nowhere mentioned the agonies of slavery. This understandably offended African Americans, and McDonnell spent a day or so getting beat up in the media.